The following is a replay of an episode we recorded in April of 2016 and look at the life of Nikola Tesla.

Now we're replaying this episode because the other day I was speaking with someone who thought that Elon Musk had just made up the word Tesla for his line of electric vehicles.

So yeah.

Anyway, stay tuned to the end of the show for some newly recorded material and a story of something very tragic and peculiar which happened two days after we recorded this show in 2016 involving a historic building featured in this episode.

So enjoy this tribute to Tesla.

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Hi there. Welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers.

And a electrifying subject this week, the focus of our show is perhaps not an obvious choice. He was someone who never ran for office. He never built a skyscraper.

But this individual is kind of a cult figure for many people, a prolific inventor, an eccentric mind, and someone who spent most of their life in New York City. That would be Nikola Tesla.

And beyond being perhaps a bit eccentric, Tesla was one of New York's greatest visionaries. And today we will be telling a tale that alternates between Guilrd Age New York and current events.

I'm glad you plugged those puns in early time.

No, I'm out. I'm now out.

So, the story kind of embodies a couple of New York archetypes. Right. At the heart of this is a man who created some of the greatest inventions of the Guilrd Age, but was somewhat clamped down in a competitive cutthroat world of New York business.

It's also a story of a loner who lingered kind of along the sidelines of a lot of major events in New York City, but was constantly a fixture always in the background and a part of the heart and soul of New York.

But he was also somebody who worked his whole long life, one very long work day after another to make new discoveries in electricity, wireless transmission, and many, many other areas, many of which are way over my head.

And many of these discoveries took place right here in New York.

Now, just as a disclaimer, as you probably know, Tom and I are not, we're not physicists. We can hardly even say the word.

I can't even wire a lamp in my living room. So we make gloss over a lot of very technical things in this story.

Right. If we get our narrative wires crossed, please forgive us, especially if you are an engineer or a physicist listening to this, we're going to do our best uncovering the scientific aspects of the show, but we're really going to be focusing more on the narrative of Tesla's life.

So join us as we discover the tale of Nikola Tesla in New York.

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